
Jeffrey Townsend
@jefftownsend
Elihu Professor of Biostatistics—Cancer, Infectious Disease, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Fungi, sometimes Running ➗🦀*🐒🍄🏃♂️ but headed for bluer skies
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http://www.yale.edu/townsend/ 10-05-2009 19:49:40
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A Call to Action: Learn what you can do now to protect science genestogenomes.org/a-call-to-acti… via Genetics Society of America


.@jefftownsend with colleagues in Yale Pharmacology + Yale Biomedical Informatics & Data Science found that inhibition of APOBEC activity could delay drug resistance to targeted #lungcancer treatments. #NSCLC sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Smilow Cancer Hospital Yale School of Medicine Yale New Haven Hosp



2025 AACR Runners for Research 5K Run/Walk I'm supporting American Association for Cancer Research! You can support it too: do.nr/9hcedm7l via DonorDrive

This afternoon at #AACR25, Drs. Sakinah Suttiratana and Jeffrey Townsend will present during educational sessions on community engagement, and #cancer evolution, respectively. Smilow Cancer Hospital Yale School of Medicine Yale New Haven Hosp


.🌻🌳J Nic Fisk 🌳🌻 presents on the reduction of social disparities in clinical cancer feature prediction via somatic evolutionary embedding of mutational data at #AACR25 Jeffrey Townsend Yale School of Public Health Yale School of Medicine


.Moein Rajaei, PhD shares new research #AACR25 showing stronger somatic selection for primary thyroid tumorigenesis v. metastasis, with the exception of the RET driver gene. Jeffrey Townsend Yale School of Public Health Yale School of Medicine #thyroidcancer


.Jeffrey Townsend led a discussion on the different dimensions of cancer evolution #AACR25 before handing the podium to 🌻🌳J Nic Fisk 🌳🌻 "We have an imperative to make the most of the patient data that we have access to in order to validate somatic models of cancer." AACR Yale School of Public Health


Is Cancer Evolution Driven by Evolutionary Genomic, Epigenomic Alterations, or Microenvironment? The AACR Cancer Evolution Working Group Steering Committee addressed this question in an #AACR25 Town Hall Meeting moderated by #AACRCEWG cochairs Anna D. Barker, Ph.D and Jeffrey Townsend.


Massive thanks to the two brilliant outgoing co-chairs of #CEWG Jeffrey Townsend and Anna D. Barker, Ph.D. Thanks for all you’ve done for the field of #CancerEvolution #AACR25 AACR


Derek Song #TownsendLab Jeffrey Townsend and Zeynep Zengin will be presenting their research during this morning's poster session at #AACR25. #pancreaticcancer #renalcellcarcinoma Smilow Cancer Hospital Yale School of Medicine Yale New Haven Hosp


Congratulations to Jeffrey Townsend, PhD, Jeffrey Townsend and Anna Barker, PhD, Anna D. Barker, Ph.D, who received AACR awards #AACR25 "in recognition of outstanding guidance and visionary leadership" for their longstanding service as co-chairs of the Cancer Evolution Working Group.


